I have seen that upload protection was recently enabled on commons. Where the bugs worked out and was there an announcement of that?
John
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On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 6:48 PM, K. Peachey p858snake@yahoo.com.au wrote:
And what protection would you be referring to?
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Commons, just like all the other WMF mediawiki installations has supported protecting files for ages.
-Peachey
no it hasnt, As of at least Dec 1, 2009 it was not active. It was enabled for a short period just before that due to an error. Werdna disabled it due to problems and it was only recently enabled. mediawiki has supported general protection (and thus preventing upload) via the "edit" protection method. the recent addition that I am referring to is the "upload" permission that was added.
John
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 7:22 PM, K. Peachey p858snake@yahoo.com.au wrote:
Commons, just like all the other WMF mediawiki installations has supported protecting files for ages.
-Peachey
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On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 6:37 PM, John Doe phoenixoverride@gmail.com wrote:
I have seen that upload protection was recently enabled on commons. Where the bugs worked out and was there an announcement of that?
I assume this was one of the dozens if not hundreds of changes that went live when Wikimedia did a recent code update. They were not individually announced. Presumably someone thought it was now non-buggy enough to run on the live site, but they might have been mistaken, so be sure to announce any bugs you find.
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 6:37 PM, John Doe phoenixoverride@gmail.com wrote:
I have seen that upload protection was recently enabled on commons. Where the bugs worked out and was there an announcement of that?
I think this is the bug report to do with that: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6579
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